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Re: [Auth]Re: [Arch]a couple of questions and suggestions
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Dave Sherohman |
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Re: [Auth]Re: [Arch]a couple of questions and suggestions |
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Fri, 13 Jul 2001 15:50:08 -0500 |
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:26:49PM -0400, Mason Ham wrote:
> Mind you, the one thing that no one seems to be addressing is
> "human"/"Business" nature. It is all well and fine to say you are going to
> keep control of the data, but once you give that data to another party,
> you/we are completely at there mercy. That is, if they can do something
> useful with the data that you sent them then they can sell the something
> useful!
Aye, that's the rub. The DotGNU list started out working from this
idea of a DNS-like system, but it was abandoned (or at least it looked
to me like it was abandoned) before long specifically because the root
servers concentrate the authority into a small number of entities.